Impacts of rising sea level to backbarrier wetlands, tidal inlets, and barrier islands: Barataria Coast, Louisiana

Coastal Sediments '07 - Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fitzgerald, Duncan ^a   Kulp, Mark ^b   Hughes, Zoe ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^b   Miner, Michael ^b   Penland, Shea ^b   Howes, Nick ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; SEDIMENTS; SHORE PROTECTION; TIDES;

BARRIER ISLANDS; SEA-LEVEL RISE (SLR) RATES; WETLAND LOSS;

WETLANDS;

EID: 34548580841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40926(239)91     Document Type: Conference Paper

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